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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Cisco Location Analytics
In another move, Cisco is acquiring mobility analytics and Wifi network location player Thinksmart Technologies of Dublin. The company tracks the location of people...
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Value Added Showrooming
Good piece by David Bell of Wharton on Showrooming. " ... With the rise in popularity of smartphones and the proliferation of online retailers, showrooming -...
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Rules and Decision Management
The large enterprise can think about how to systematize their business processes and the rules that they use to make decisions. This has often been difficult for...
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Facebook Commerce Successful for Small Retail
In CIO: The claim made here is that Facebook Commerce is becoming particularly successful for small businesses. " ... Second-quarter profits from Facebook stores...
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Data Mining for Drug Facts
In CACM: On the use of data mining to determine drug information about drugs Work out of Stanford University: " ... When people with high blood pressure start...
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What Consumer Products Companies Know
Gib Bassett of Teradata on What Consumer Products Companies Know About Consumers. " ... With widespread adoption of mobile devices and participation in socialSome...
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Pepsico Search for Tech in Brazil
In CGT: " ... PepsiCo is bringing PepsiCo10, its three-year-old technology incubator program, to Brazil. "Along with the search for new ideas, PepsiCo10 supports...
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Behavior and Psychology
Correspondent Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk In her Interdisciplinary Blog, ' ... "You can talk about behavior without knowing anything about psychology" according to Christopher...
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An Easy Button for Big Data?
Bill Franks, who has an excellent book out on big data analytics, writes about the lack of an 'easy button' for big data. Insightful thoughts. " ... It is good...
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Predictions for Self Driving Cars
Recorded Future posts one of their future looking views of the future of self driving cars. Another good example of how their technology works, especially for...
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Pentaho and Cisco Partner for Big Data Analytcs
In A Press Release: We did lots of work with Cisco, especially in the retail space with devices that enabled price checking. Was involved in a number of innovation...
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How Mobile is Remaking Marketing
A useful presentation by correspondent Phil Hendrix of Immr and GigaOM. Contains a number of good case studies on the subject.
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Fast Decisions Better than Perfect Data
In Information Management: Under some conditions, and with care. But a good point, what we called 'quick and dirty' analysis is sometimes very valuable to understand...
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Need for Advanced Data Visualization Analytics
Visualization is a form of analytics that integrates the power of human visual processing. Such visualization works best when integrated with analytical methods...
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Target Uses Passbook
Target stores has announced that they will be providing coupons through Apples' Passbook App, available on the new IOS6 operating system on iPhones.
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ConAgra View of Innovation
ConAgra's view of innovation. They rightly view an important element is information directly from customers. And the ability to construct platform based solutions...
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Can Design be Free
'Design wants to be Free', the article paraphrases Stewart Brand. But what are the implications for low cost and universally available design? Universally create...
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SAP Mobility Design Center
An intriguing effort by SAP to look at design in mobility. With some similarities to our own innovation center work, which in part supported design of many kinds...
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Diagnostic Tricorder Challenge
In GigaOM: Via the nonprofit Qualcomm Foundation. The interconnection of a number of complex sensors to a smart phone style telecommunications device. In particular...
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